# Text recognition

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Element that OCR-recognizes text of given image. If image is not supplied the full screen recognition is executed.

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Properties

\- Image: \[System.Drawing.Bitmap] Image bytes array

\- Variable: \[LTools.OCR.OCRInst] Reference to OCR engine

\- Text\*: \[String] Variable to store resulting text

\- Time-out\*: \[Int32] Maximum waiting time for process completion (ms)